Hi, when painting masks on the skin with Attribute Paint my groom is cooking even when its not being displayed on the OBJ level. Both Guide Groom and Hair generate are off. Hide other objects is selected, I reset the scene view too. I'm using the guide advect method in guide groom.

I can currently bypass this issue by locking the node intermediately after Attr Paint, but id still like to know if I'm missing something.

something else may be forcing those nodes to cook, this can include:

- live render sonewhere in forgotten render view
- locked spreadsheet to specific geo
- geo being used as geometry light, that would cook always as long as the light is displayed in the viewport
- some UI parameters that rely on geometry attributes
...

while I'm not sure its likely that any of mentioned cases are your case, there may be others, but usually its something that needs to cook that depends on the later nodes even though they are hidden from viewport

Thanks Tomas,

I'll keep an eye on dependencies on the file.